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huginn ,

Idk if you watched the video but the reason it works is mentioned in the video, if not explored in detail.

You have a digital id and a digital signature that is tied to you as a citizen.

Each vote has to be signed with your personal voter signature.

huginn ,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_identity_card

It's actually fascinating. Asymmetric keys with public keys hosted by the government and the private key in your ID.

A 4 digit pin1 code is required to use the authorization key and a 5 digit pin2 is required to use the signing key.

The average Estonian signs 50 documents per year using this method.

huginn ,

Government biometric requirements really aren't a joke. They perform pretty regular audits and the liability of not deleting ID could be company ending.

They might not delete your biometrics, but I'd be shocked if they didn't. It's far more likely that they not only delete it but have an audit trail proving deletion.

huginn ,

As a cyclist in NYC the complaint that bikes are weaving through cars is hilarious.

Of course they are. Cars are almost always stuck in traffic while bikes move faster.

I can make my 12ish mile commute in 45 minutes. Until the bridge I spend every mile of that commute passing cars.

That's all besides the point though: there shouldn't be personal passenger vehicles in NYC. Business vehicles sure. A few taxis are personal vehicles because of Uber - sure. But there should be 0 street parking and heavy restrictions on where drivers are allowed to go. We need to take back our streets.

huginn ,

The only advantage we have is that we have an increasing number of bike lanes parallel to major thoroughfares. While there's the prevalent issue of trucks parking in the lanes they are, for the most part, clear and in reasonable condition.

huginn ,

I mean advantage over motorcyclists

huginn ,

I like how the article slams USB 3.2 vs USB 4.0 but ignores that Google was saying " As of August 202_4_ "... A date that notable has not yet occurred.

Reminder: The DMV uses photos for facial recognition

This is half a decade old news, but I only found this out myself after it accidentally came up in conversation at the DMV. The worker would not have informed me if it hadn't come into conversation. Every DMV photo in the United States is being used for AI facial recognition, and nobody has talked about it for years. This is...

huginn ,

Do you have a passport?

huginn ,

Not just Europe either. 172 countries use NFC passports, all of which have your full biometric info (including a high res headshot) encoded onto the chip.

If you've ever had a passport your face is known to the government of your country and searchable in a database.

huginn ,

It is not real.

There have been a lot of "inspect element" fakes going on.

But there are also a lot of real ones. Like "Drink 2 quarts of piss" or "Add glue to your pizza"

huginn ,

It is. From what I can tell the AI doesn't usually respond to "obscene" questions.

huginn ,

... How does that relate to the question asked?

huginn ,

All good, it was just very confusing lmfao

huginn ,

he doesn’t cheat on his wife

he doesn't cheat on his wife so far.

huginn ,

It's not cheating if it's consensual.

huginn ,

Polyamory isn't cheating though.

Cheating is, by definition, sex with another person against your partner's will.

huginn ,

It helps that it's being called "southern chiv" which I presume is either southern chivalry or southern knight.

Harper's also noted that this was published weeks before a presidential election.

huginn ,

Or speech that hurts his feelings

huginn ,

I'm loving my zigbee2mqtt setup. Took a couple tries to get the mosquitto broker working right but worth it in the long run.

huginn ,

Work gave me a 16gb laptop for Android development.

It took up to 20 minutes to incrementally compile.

They eventually bumped me up to 32gb when I complained enough that my swap file was 20gb.

Suddenly incremental compiles are <2 min

huginn ,

Federated Stack Exchange isn't harder for AI to eat. If anything it's easier.

huginn ,

It's open source and can be restricted to private followers. If you self host it'd be as private as possible for an Instagram clone

huginn ,

This is exactly what I'm talking about when I argue with people who insist that an LLM is super complex and totally is a thinking machine just like us.

It's nowhere near the complexity of the human brain. We are several orders of magnitude more complex than the largest LLMs, and our complexity changes with each pulse of thought.

The brain is amazing. This is such a cool image.

huginn ,

but it isn’t so clear cut

It's demonstrably several orders of magnitude less complex. That's mathematically clear cut.

Where is the cutoff on complexity required?

Philosophical question without an answer - We do know that it's nowhere near the complexity of the brain.

both our brains and most complex AI are pretty much black boxes.

There are many things we cannot directly interrogate which we can still describe.

It’s impossible to say this system we know vanishingly little about is/isn’t dundamentally the same as this system we know vanishingly little about, just on a differentscale

It's entirely possible to say that because we know the fundamental structures of each, even if we don't map the entirety of eithers complexity. We know they're fundamentally different - Their basic behaviors are fundamentally different. That's what fundamentals are.

The first AGI will likely still have most people saying the same things about it, “it isn’t complex enough to approach a human brain.”

Speculation but entirely possible. We're nowhere near that though. There's nothing even approaching intelligence in LLMs. We've never seen emergent behavior or evidence of an id or ego. There's no ongoing thought processes, no rationality - because that's not what an LLM is. An LLM is a static model of raw text inputs and the statistical association thereof. Any "knowledge" encoded in an LLM exists entirely in the encoding - It cannot and will not ever generate anything that wasn't programmed into it.

It's possible that an LLM might represent a single, tiny, module of AGI in the future. But that module will be no more the AGI itself than you are your cerebellum.

But it doesn’t need to equal a brain to still be intelligent.

First thing I think we agree on.

After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year (www.billboard.com)

When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...

huginn ,

If you find a better place to discover music please lmk (no sarcasm)

Their discovery sucks lately and I hate it.

huginn ,

I'm not able to watch the video at the moment: is it ARM instead?

I think arm architecture are only going to become more prevalent with the success of the M line macs

huginn ,

Thanks for the clarification on reputable vendors! I've always wondered where the right place to buy lithium was.

huginn ,

Kalih Choc are great. I like that plan.

huginn ,

No way in hell they'd ever argue data privacy.

That's only for apple to pretend to care about while selling your data to brokers.

huginn ,

Lamont v. Postmaster General(1965)

Supreme Court ruled that publishing propaganda in America is free speech. You're not allowed to interfere with an American's access to propaganda

Justice Brennan made explicit what had been implicit in the majority opinion, declaring that “the right to receive publications is . . . a fundamental right,” the protection of which is “necessary to make the express guarantees [of the First Amendment] fully meaningful.”

huginn ,

I think I was mistaken on that point. They're not publicly doing that - just selling ads.

huginn ,

Why quit out of the superior text editor?

huginn ,

Why would I want an OS to edit text? It's already on *nix - I want the best text editor smh

huginn ,

He went to the hostpital for trouble breathing.

In the hospital he was intubated. He got pneumonia and then MRSA in his blood.

huginn ,

Other article specified pneumonia was post intubation

huginn ,

It's also a really common result of COVID

huginn ,

Can also happen if you heat it extremely quickly. Very powerful induction can do this if the bottom isn't covered in liquid

huginn ,

6 months of time is effectively 24 hours in a corporation that large.

huginn ,

You're missing the whole "growth starts to plateau so management looks for ways to cut costs"

And

"Product comparatively stable so it gets hired out to contractors who inevitably fuck it up because they're cheap and there was 0 knowledge transfer but it's too late you laid off the entire original team"

huginn ,

It's not Google technically: it's alphabet. Which is why they phrased it like that.

huginn ,

I was asked to relocate to Texas for a position when I was hired. I said no thanks and went to the NYC office instead.

I know I wasn't the only one to do this.

They were trying to hire in Austin and instead only found NYC talent. Tough break for them.

huginn ,

Yeah I've deleted Facebook and affiliated products since 2017.

Google social never made sense to me but even just for content YouTube does a terrible job showing me what I want to see.

Tiktok had honed in on things I found funny or interesting within an hour of picking it up. And I'm not talking mainstream sports or TV type content, I'm talking niche sub communities and creators with less than 1k followers.

Idk how they're doing it (besides the obvious data collection) but they've got a well tuned algo.

huginn ,

The sheer amount of privileges TikTok requires on your device

The fuck are you on about?

Tiktok has a total of 0 granted permissions from me.

By default it has the same perms as other similar apps: Google Advertising ID.

That's it.

You can't opt out of that: it's Google.

If you give it a fuck load of perms that's your fault. By default it has less access than Discord.

You're just parroting bullshit you've heard elsewhere.

I'm a professional Android developer: Tiktok isn't requesting anything strange. It asks for camera, audio, and storage access when you record a video. That's exactly what you'd need to ask for: nothing more or less.

huginn ,

Let's play a fun game:

Which of the following 2 screenshots is TikTok's permissions?

https://feddit.it/pictrs/image/2c7d7e23-c82e-4d65-8461-629df474c2ce.webp
https://feddit.it/pictrs/image/0f61670b-0d4d-476f-909e-8eda10385a19.webp

Is it the one that can prevent the phone from sleeping and runs at startup? The one that sends sticky broadcasts?

Or is it the one that accesses the AdId Api?

I'll give you a hint: I already told you which one it is.

huginn ,

Are you talking about the App Privacy page specifically?

Because that page is about as useful as "known to the State of California to cause cancer"

Any social media with advertising will have similar alerts as to what it might be collecting.

How would it be collecting that you might ask?

It's not on your phone: Your browser and your apps are sandboxed from each other. They cannot read from each other. It's a constant pain in the ass for session persistence, you end up having to use wonky nonce patterns to maintain sessions from app to browser & vice versa.

They're collecting it from advertising ids that are on your browser. It's the Google Ad Api - That's it.

Go ahead, look at Instagram or Youtube. They'll have the same laundry list of "Browsing history, Physical Address" etc.

TikTok isn't conjuring that from thin air - It's just that it, like any other advertising app, is using the publicly available data about you to advertise.

Again a side by side:

Which one is TikTok and which one is Instagram?
https://feddit.it/pictrs/image/b9a60d42-bac1-4c4d-a500-2827415777b0.webp

https://feddit.it/pictrs/image/a25d3b16-1b37-41f0-83c7-f631f8304c48.webp

TikTok isn't doing anything that the other apps aren't also doing - The other apps are just fucking awful at knowing what you want to see.

huginn ,

My point here is less that TikTok is totally cool with privacy (they're not)

It's that tiktok is just as invasive as all other mainstream social media but they provide a better service than any other social media.

That's it: They do more with the exact same.

You can drop instagram straight into that sentence and it reads the same. Except Facebook tracks you even when you don't have an account.

As soon as a user starts using Instagram, the company begins building a profile about them, including their interests, political leanings, sexuality, and every other variable that could impact the selection of videos they see.

huginn ,

Although, I do think them providing “better” service is subjective.

Sure, better is always subjective

But there's a reason it's way more popular for short form video than anyone else despite coming after them.

It’s basically vine, right? Vine had an “explore” page, right?

Sorta. It's short form video but vine was locked to 7 seconds. TT is anything up to 3 minutes.

But beyond vine: the "for you page" of Tiktok is an algorithmic beast unlike anything else. It is miles better at training to your likes than anyone else manages.

It seems like their main money plan besides ads is shopping. That's been their major push for a year or so now.

With social media companies and ad tech in general it's safe to assume that they're all merciless and cutthroat. They will do anything to profile you better, short of the existentially illegal shit (IE the company would cease to exist if they were caught. Think breaking into your house).

That's why it's always hilarious when people tout whatsapp being e2e encrypted

huginn ,

Yeah seems like we're just of different opinions there.

I firmly believe that American companies have excruciating detail on every single user, as well as most non-users. That's how they can do things like predict pregnancy before the rest of the family has been told...

And that was Target more than a decade ago.

And I also think, with ties to the Chinese govt

It's worth noting that ByteDance has a board that is 3/5ths American. The company has a communist committee like all Chinese megacorps.

China has blocked Youtube because it contained content around Free Tibet & Tienanmen Square. American Congress has decided to ban Tiktok because it might have content that China wants people to see (maybe). There is no credible reason why besides "No totally, trust me it's a problem".

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